Female students have demonstrated superior academic performance in this year's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, consistently outperforming male candidates in both overall pass rates and the attainment of top-tier grades.

Data from the results shows that female students achieved a pass rate of 66.68 percent, with 607,939 of the 911,791 girls who participated in the exams successfully passing.

In contrast, male candidates recorded a pass rate of 57.86 percent; out of 917,694 boys who sat for the tests, 530,938 qualified.

This performance gap indicates that the female pass rate was 8.82 percentage points higher than that of their male peers.

Beyond the general pass rates, girls also secured a significant lead in attaining the highest grade, GPA-5.

A total of 63,896 female students earned the perfect grade, compared to 52,780 male students, resulting in a margin of 11,116 additional top achievers among female candidates.

In total, 1,138,877 students across the country successfully passed the SSC and equivalent examinations this year.

The gender breakdown of these successful candidates includes 607,939 females and 530,938 males.